Writing with the accents
sorry, new here, and iv'e tried looking for this answer around the website and i can't find it.
when doing the activities, and you have to write the words, is there a faster way to type the accented letters, than having to click the appropriate one? i've seen people achieve full points for the section, but not sure how. I can get them all right when i write them out, but i'm losing seconds and points by having to click the accented letter for certain words.
it's not a big deal, i know understanding is more than getting "points" but if there is an easier way, i sure would like to know!!
Thanx!!
7 Answers
Hello, and welcome to the forum. A lot of users here like to change their keyboards to Spanish or International or something, but I find the following much easier. One of our fellow SpanishDict users made a great application for just your difficulty. There's no installation or anything; the only downside is that you have to run it again every time you restart your computer. But it's really not much trouble if you leave it in your 'Downloads' section or paste it onto your desktop. Once you have it running, all you have to do is hit the Windows key and the vowel you want to put the accent over, like you would with the Shift key for writing a capital letter. It also does the upside down question and exclamation marks. Here's the link: http://www.leithe.no/spanish.exe Good luck on the flashcards!
The reason I don't like the built-in Windows option is that it has some side effects on the functionality of the single quotation mark ('), as I recall, but I'm not sure. If you do want to change your keyboard settings, though, it's pretty easy. In Windows 7, just click on "Change keyboards or other input methods" under "Clock, Language and Region." It should be pretty easy in other operating systems, too, but here's a link with instructions for how to do it in just about every operating system ever: http://www.studyspanish.com/accents/typing.htm They even tell you how to do it in Windows 3.1 in case you haven't changed computers since 1993.
If you use firefox you can download an add-on called abcTajpu .
Good question and welcome to the forum Hefinator.
Yes, welcome to the forum. I visited Everett many times when I was working for Boeing (retired now). I always worked for the Seattle group but never in the Seattle area but visited on business many times.
Assuming the primary language that you write in is English but also write in Spanish frequently and perhaps use both languages in a given document, I believe the easiest way to use Spanish accents is to use the United States - International keyboard. I had to download it from Microsoft. With this keyboard, to accent a vowel you simply hit the apostrophe key and then the vowel or hold shift and then the vowel if you want a capital. This quickly becomes very fast and natural. If you actually want an apostrophe you hit that key and then the space bar or hold shift and then the apostrophe/quote key and then space if you want a quote symbol.
When you load this keyboard you get an icon on you desktop to switch back and forth from that keyboard to the standard US keyboard. I moved the icon to the lower right corner where it is out of the way but I could just remove it because I do no find any reason to switch back to the US keyboard.
This keyboard does not provide a way to write an eñe. I do that the old fashioned way - alt-164.
all question words have accent, which are only placed on vowels, when one of these two rules break rules break… • if the word ends in S,N or vowel then stress on 2nd to last syllable • if ends in any thing else then stress on last syllable
This is what I was looking for also. The last opition you listed is what I like the best. ¡Thanks MacFadden¡
Thanks for the help
